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Eric Lach

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Eric Lach is a reporter for TPM. From 2010 to 2011, he was a news writer in charge of the website?s front page. He has previously written for The Daily, NewYorker.com, GlobalPost and other publications. He can be reached at ericl@talkingpointsmemo.com

The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, which was launched to bring attention to the kidnapping of hundreds of girls in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has inspired plenty of discussion, on Twitter and elsewhere. On Friday, the National Rifle Association felt compelled to weigh in. The organization joined the chorus of conservatives bashing First Lady Michelle Obama for participating in the hashtag campaign and found a way to turn the discussion to guns.

Standing behind a podium positioned at one end of the restaurant Cipriani's enormous dining room in midtown Manhattan, Gov. Chris Christie (R) of New Jersey told a crowd there were two reasons he had accepted an invitation to speak to them Sunday night.

Slated to appear this Sunday at a red carpet event in New York City are Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and the actor Sean Penn, among others.

A former "Exalted Cyclops" of the Ku Klux Klan, who was arrested along with his mother last year in connection to a 2009 cross burning in Ozark, Ala., was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in the incident.

On Dec. 13, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told the press that no one on his senior staff had prior knowledge of the plan to close access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September. But a lawyer representing Christie's former campaign manager Bill Stepien now says that was wrong.

More questions are being raised about the internal review that cleared New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) of any role in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, this time by an attorney representing the governor's former campaign manager, Bill Stepien.

The idea behind Operation American Spring is simple: the restoration of constitutional government, the rule of law, freedom, and liberty. The plan calls for the removal from office of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Attorney General Eric Holder. And that's just to start.